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704
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with bead edging; pictorial figure of a winged child holding a thunderbolt in his right hand and a sceptre in his left hand, on a ground of clouds; arched rectangular border with astragal and cavetto moulded edging; two cornucopiae, flowers and leaves tumbling from them and hanging suspended down the sides; on top, two sea serpents.
Notes: The figure is of Zeus/Jupiter as a child.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 16 [...]
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid- to late-17th century in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Tiverton Castle, Tiverton, Devon, England.
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' Miscellaneous Firebacks